-Update on membership – as of Sept 2015 roster,
we have 53 members.For this third year
of our interim status, we need to have 50 paid members.Great job getting the word out!

Charter discussion

-This year, the final year of our 3-year
interim status (from Nov 2015-2016), we need to approve our charter.We will be sending out a draft charter that
has been approved by the board, and the members will vote on approval in early
2016.

-We cosponsored a symposium at this meeting, with
the Climate Change Working Group: The Importance of Evolutionary Adaptive
Capacity when Preparing for the Impacts of Climate Change

-Proposals for future symposia: Deadline is Feb
5, 2016

Workshops
for future meetings

* Two general ideas: either teach people or have people teach us

-E-DNA (Valorie Titus)

-Conservation Genetics (Lisette
Waits), Landscape Genetics

-Bioinformatics (Jim Austin),
Software, R

-Deadline
for proposals for workshops at 2016 meeting: Feb 5, 2016

Sara Oyler-McCance is the MEWG representative for the
editorial board of The Wildlife Professional.If you have ideas for articles, or have written an article you would
like to submit, please contact Sara.

Reminder for the TWS Social at The Pint on Tuesday at 8:30
P.M.

Committee formed for student awards committee (Jim Austin,
Randy DeYoung, Darren Wood).As we
generate funds we would like to consider using them to support students, in their
research and/or to travel to meetings.We established this committee to consider possible options for students
awards and how we would administer those award programs.

We also considered the possibility of having future awards
for Best Article in Journal of Wildlife Management, Best Student Article
related to Molecular Ecology.We will
consider this further in future meetings.

Our interim status is scheduled to end in Nov 2016.We will petition TWS to become official next
year (in our annual report to the Council), in time to be considered by the TWS
Council at the 2016 meeting in Raleigh.